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Post by counto on Aug 14, 2020 2:45:39 GMT -5
(List of Books): The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens The Odyssey - Homer Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll My Last Duchess - Robert Browning Ramona Quimby; Age 8 - Beverly Cleary
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Post by Dante on Aug 14, 2020 4:48:17 GMT -5
There are a number of exhaustive guides to the various allusions and references in Snicket's works, including to real books mentioned, such as the famous Quidditch.com guide. With that said, there hasn't been a thread in a while in which we discuss the books mentioned in Snicket's work and what we make of them, so perhaps it's time to revisit that subject. Does anyone have any experiences they would like to share on how Snicket has influenced their reading choices? Over the years I've made it my business to read a number of texts alluded to in the series - I dedicated a summer to it at one point while the series was ongoing - of which probably the most obscure is W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Aug 19, 2020 11:59:01 GMT -5
What are the other exhaustive guides, besides Quidditch.com? I was inspired to read Moby Dick in part because of ASOUE, and in large part after reading Nathaniel Philbrick's Why Read Moby Dick. I found an astonishing number of Snickety lines (i.e., Melville-y lines in Snicket?) and new allusions I hadn't read about before. I also find Handler to be a reliable diversifier of my usual reading repertoire, so I often turn to this thread for recommendations. Time Will Darken It became one of my favorite books, and Station Eleven, which I read last summer, turned out to be a timely choice (it's about a pandemic). Has anyone read The Long Goodbye?
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Post by Dante on Aug 19, 2020 12:59:49 GMT -5
What are the other exhaustive guides, besides Quidditch.com? I'm thinking of past reread threads, I recall Terry Craig putting together guides for each ATWQ volume, I know we had dedicated threads for reading books mentioned in the series long ago - things like that, scattered resources. Sufficiently so that I'm disinclined to attempt to dig them up collectively. But they will be there, for those who search. No, but it's just occurred to me that The Moving Toyshop puts in an appearance in 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy, and I enthusiastically recommend it.
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Post by Reba on Aug 20, 2020 5:39:21 GMT -5
in 5th grade I tried to read Anna Karenina because of asoue, and the fact that I couldn’t do it made me so upset that I didn’t read a book again until 8th grade, when I revisited Anna karenina and was able to get through it. probably my most formative reading experience. thanks Danny 🤟
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